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Depression and Mediterranean diet - Research

Miyake H et al 2025 - Association between the Japanese-style diet and low prevalence of depressive symptoms: Japan Epidemiology Collaboration on Occupational Health Study
Camprodon-Boadas P et al 2025 - Mediterranean Diet and Mental Health in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review
Bizzozero-Peroni et al 2025 - The impact of the Mediterranean diet on alleviating depressive symptoms in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
O'Neill et al 2024 - Clinical and cost-effectiveness of remote-delivered, online lifestyle therapy versus psychotherapy for reducing depression: results from the CALM non-inferiority, randomised trial
Hepsomali P et al 2024 - Adherence to unhealthy diets is associated with altered frontal gamma-aminobutyric acid and glutamate concentrations and grey matter volume: preliminary findings
Allcock L et al 2024 - Adherence to a Mediterranean Diet Is Inversely Associated with Anxiety and Stress but Not Depression: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Community-Dwelling Older Australians
Bracci E, et al 2023 - Developing a Mediterranean Healthy Food Basket and an Updated Australian Healthy Food Basket Modelled on the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
Ortega MA et al 2022 - Biological Role of Nutrients, Food and Dietary Patterns in the Prevention and Clinical Management of Major Depressive Disorder
Bayes J et al 2022 - The effect of a Mediterranean diet on the symptoms of depression in young males (the "AMMEND: A Mediterranean Diet in MEN with Depression" study): a randomized controlled trial
Bradfield J et al 2021 - From observation to intervention: time to put ‘food and mood’ to the test
Maitre L et al 2021 - Early-life environmental exposure determinants of child behavior in Europe: A longitudinal, population-based study
Rucklidge J et al 2021 - Nutrition Provides the Essential Foundation for Optimizing Mental Health
Firth J et al 2020 - Food and mood: how do diet and nutrition affect mental wellbeing?
Molsberry S et al 2020 - Diet pattern and prodromal features of Parkinson's disease
Kouvari et al 2020 - Meat consumption, depressive symptoms and cardiovascular disease in apparently healthy men and women
Parletta et al 2019 - A Mediterranean-style dietary intervention supplemented with fish oil improves diet quality and mental health in people with depression: A randomized controlled trial (HELFIMED)
Khanna P et al 2019 - Nutritional Aspects of Depression in Adolescents - A Systematic Review
Dinan et al 2018 - Feeding melancholic microbes: MyNewGut recommendations on diet and mood
Lassale et al 2018 - Healthy dietary indices and risk of depressive outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
Moore et al 2017 - Current evidence linking nutrition with brain health in ageing
Jacka et al 2017 - A randomised controlled trial of dietary improvement for adults with major depression
Li et al 2015 - Fish consumption and risk of depression: a meta-analysis.
Sánchez-Villegas et al 2015 - A longitudinal analysis of diet quality scores and the risk of incident depression in the SUN Project.
Opie et al 2015 - Dietary recommendations for the prevention of depression.
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, 2015 - Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Lai et al 2014 - A systematic review and meta-analysis of dietary patterns and depression in community-dwelling adults.
Aliev et al 2013 - Nutritional and Nonnutritional Factors in the Preservation of Cognitive Performance in Dementia/Depression and Alzheimer's Disease
Quirk et al 2013 - Association between diet quality, dietary patterns and depression in adults: a systematic review.
Rienks 2012 - Mediterranean dietary pattern and prevalence and incidence of depressive symptoms in mid-aged women
Jacka et al 2010 - Association of Western and traditional diets with depression and anxiety in women
Sánchez-Villegas et al 2009 - Association of the Mediterranean dietary pattern with the incidence of depression: the SUN cohort
Sánchez-Villegas et al 2009 - Association between folate, vitamin B(6) and vitamin B(12) intake and depression in the SUN cohort study
Sanchez-Villegas et al 2007 - Long chain omega-3 fatty acids intake, fish consumption and mental disorders in the SUN cohort study

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